[OSM-talk] Examples at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access

[Arne Johannessen]

Mateusz Konieczny via talk <talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> From quick review I am unable to remember any actually existing
> access restriction that would not be taggable.

The default motor_vehicle=* of Norwegian forest roads [1] by law [2] depends on physical criteria such as tracktype=*, surface=*, smoothness=*, width=*. The law makes this a judgement call in each and every case. [3]

I'm not aware of a useful way to tag this restriction, so I personally like to simply add those physical tags and leave the problem for interested data consumers to decide for themselves. A clear consensus on the tagging of forest roads does not seem to currently exist in the Norwegian OSM community.


[1] I use "forest road" as a loose translation of "veg i utmark", meaning something like "road not in towns or farmland". In OSM, they could be tagged as highway=track, service, residential, unclassified; depending on the circumstances.
[2] https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/motor-traffic-on-uncultivated-land-and-i/id173402/
[3] in Norwegian, the government's interpretation of the law:
https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokument/dep/kld/rundskriv/1996/t-196-motorferdsel-i-utmark/4/id278805/


> [nuclear power plants vs. residential driveways]
> 
> Is access=private supposed to be incorrect in either case?

I would argue that non-gated driveways are often closer to access=destination than they are to access=private.

According to the wiki, private requires individual permission, which I can't give to the mailman / delivery person, but I still want them to make their deliveries on my doorstep.


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Arne Johannessen
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